Poorcraft: Wish You Were Here!

We’re reaching into the summer months now, and with the combination of warm, unbearable (for me anyway) temperatures and graduation season comes a fresh crop of college graduates, wide-eyed and terrified of our prospective job market. You may remember when I wrote about Poorcaft last year, a great comic-based basic primer on how to survive those post-college years without the addition of mountains of debt added to that tuition bill. Earlier last year, I also announced the Kickstarter for Poorcraft’s sequel, written by Ryan Estrada and illustrated by Diana Nock. Well, the kickstarter’s long over and I finally got my pdf in the email, so let me take you through the sequel – Poorcraft: Wish You Were Here!

I have to warn that in this book there is a LOT of information to digest. Penny and Mil this time are back and going on vacation to a beach city, and Penny’s bound and determined to help Mil spend her vacation without spending a fortune. The entire book is much larger than the first one – almost double the pages – and again, a lot of information to keep together. It goes over cost of travel, lodgings, and day to day activities while on vacation, offering ways to go about it without losing your mind over the details. Poorcraft: Wish You Were Here doesn’t pull punches, though: it warns about the dangers of travel, petty theft to the reason why tourist traps are named just that.

In many ways this book’s information can be helpful for other modes of travel as well. As someone who travels for conventions, while still in the states, can benefit from a little extra travel planning. Pack smart, ditch the hardshell case if at all possible and keep your money close to you while you’re about – and have an emergency plan too! A few people I know had their money taken from their hostel safe last year. Not by other travellers – but the cleaning staff. In most places that won’t happen, but better well prepared than worse off. Estrada might have hinted at wishes to do a living and working abroad in detail book in the future, thanks to a little fourth-wall breaking.
Poorcraft and it’s sequel Poorcraft: Wish You Were Here are both available from Iron Circus Comics, who are also doing a Kickstarter on their New Worlds Anthology, which you can visit here.

Author: Jes Schroeder

Jes Schroeder is a freelance illustrator and creator of the online graphic novel Stacked Hand. When she's not reading comic books, she's usually playing at alchemy with tea.
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